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Leila Ap Language

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In text B Leila is having a conversation with a woman called Jan, this woman is obviously a person that she feels comfortable with as she is having a direct conversation with her. This means that Leila's speech way be widened because she is in a comfortable environment, she is also playing with this woman so she is not only interacting with her with speech she will also be interacting with her actions in which we cannot see. The text suggests that Leila around the age of 3 years, and her speech suggest that she is in the post-telegraphic stage as she is able to construct complex and grammatically correct combinations of sentences. Due to the fact that we do not have enough contextual background of this child we cannot say if her speech is …show more content…

By doing this it makes the sentences simpler for Leila therefore she is able to understand what she is being told. This is indicated in the by the long pauses in the middle of simple sentences, such as “...it's the water (3.0) it's going down the pipes (3.0)...” this would suggest that she leaving long pauses in the middle of sentence so she can allow Leila to process what she is saying and what each word means. However this baby talk structure has shown that it is not a good way to help your help development there language skills, because most children mimic their caregiver they will also mimic that. This is one conclusion from Child Directed Speech, it says that baby talk is in fact harmful to a child learning new language, others disagree. This negative approach to baby talk could be shown where she adopts the voice of “iggle piggle” this could suggest that because she see her care givers adapting different sing song voices she believes that it is acceptable to do so, which could be deceasing her development. However this could just be her taking what she has seen from her environment and putting it into the preoperational stage which were suggested by Piaget. This stage tells us that she is between the ages of 3-7, and he believed that this is a positive attribute for a child to do when learning a new

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